Intel Corp has broken its silence on its deal with Cambridge, UK-based Advanced RISC Machines Ltd (CI No 3,353), and said it has reached an agreement to produce, sell and enhance the company’s StrongARM embedded microprocessor under license. Included in the deal are some of Digital Equipment Corp’s variants of the processor the SA-110, SA-1100 and SA-1500, and future products that include ARM-designed companion chips which include ARM technology. The agreement includes a technology cross license between Intel and ARM. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and it is still dependent on the US Federal Trade Commission’s approval of Intel’s purchase of some of Digital’s assets (CI No 3,277). Intel has yet to really make its mark in the growing embedded processor space, and the StrongARM should be fairly strategic to the chip giant’s entry into this market.
